This year, the Council on Foreign Relations celebrated a century of expert insight on the foreign policy choices facing the United States and the world.
In a new, limited-series podcast, CFR President Richard Haass speaks with some of the most influential thinkers of our time to explore nine transformative issues that will shape the next century.
Find all nine episodes on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Margaret MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost historians, examines how to apply history to better understand current global challenges, including the erosion of democracy, the rise of China, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. 🎧 Listen
In the face of democratic backsliding around the world, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum discusses what needs to happen for democracy to survive. 🎧 Listen
Economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, talks about the realities of climate change along with renewable energy, carbon pricing, and the prospect of building a carbon-neutral economy. 🎧 Listen
Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, looks to the future of the labor market and examines how to provide workers with the skills and training they need in an era of ongoing technological change. 🎧 Listen
Birth rates are booming in some countries and plummeting in others. Leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt analyzes the most important trends and their consequences. 🎧 Listen
Michelle McMurry Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, describes the future of biotechnology and its potential impact on food production, climate change, energy production, and medicine. 🎧 Listen
By all accounts, China is sure to have an outsized impact on the world over the next 100 years. Elizabeth Perry, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, considers China’s rise and the implications for global order. 🎧 Listen
Fei-Fei Li, a professor at Stanford University, discusses how to contend with technologies that can do good and do harm. 🎧 Listen
CNN host Fareed Zakaria and Haass together examine the concept of “world order” and what needs to be done to promote it in a world of revived great power rivalry and global challenges. 🎧 Listen
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